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Today, environmentally destructive, data-thieving, “generative” AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek deskill human labor and undermine our very cognitive capacity. Transformations are occurring in nearly every sector and nearly every country, around the world. As platforms digitally colonize and commodify an ever-greater portion of our time, it becomes harder to find the cracks in capitalism where human culture can flourish and resistance can grow. To fight this techno-capitalist inertia, it is necessary to understand how paid and unpaid labor have changed through it.